TED MCDERMOTT

Public Service Journalism Team

Zachary Holt left the Nez Perce Reservation in September 2022 and set off on a drug-fueled crime spree that took him and an accomplice across the reservation and further north into Idaho.

Six weeks and 200 hundred miles later, Holt and his accomplice — a non-Native man named Dezmonique Tenzsley — ended their string of robberies, assaults, shootings and home invasions on eastern Washington's Colville Indian Reservation, according to the region's U.S. Attorney's Office.

There, Holt's brother, Curry Pinkham, drove Holt and Tenzsley to a trailer where they donned masks, burst into a trailer and murdered two strangers: siblings Gale and Jeremy Neal, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

As Holt, Tenzsley and Pinkham fled the scene of that cri

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